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Hello All:

How does your garden grow?

We are pleased to report that our new secretary Dr Roz Hayley is busy at work contacting and updating our members list, no doubt some of you have received her correspondence. She has wonderful ideas so please contact her. drrozhaley@msn.com

Summer colour:

How about buying a package of Zinnias and have either in the garden or a pot full of colour these seed are easy to germinate within 4 to 6 weeks

Garden visits thanks to Evelyn and Barbara

Hello Barbara,

Many, many thanks for showing us around your garden on Easter Monday and arranging our trip. The group really enjoyed their visit and your garden was voted one of the top gardens of the trip. Would you also pass on our thanks to Evelyn- every time we saw a desert rose we thought of her!

Should you ever come to the UK do hesitate to contact me.

Heidi Howcroft Tel. + 44 (0) 1963 441183

Land Update: We are in the process to get the land cleared.

Garden Book I just bought this new book; I will have it to share at our next meeting.

(From the NY times review)

In her charming and thought-provoking AMERICAN GROWN: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America (Crown, $30), Michelle Obama describes her plan to use the White House garden as a way to call the nation’s attention to a big issue: the connection between the quality of our food and the health of our children. “Like every gardener, Obama worries about heat and heavy rains and poor soil. Luckily, she has the National Park Service staff at her back.

Immortelle trees, with the emergence of the new leaves they are also deformed and curled up, does any one know anything about this>

New Plants what is growing in your garden? Share with us any new ideas? for a new border, a vegetable garden this is my eggplant

Tropical foliage plants really good ideas for your garden

Copperleafs (Acalypha wilkesiana

Elephant’s ears (Alocasia spp.

Gold-vein plant (Sanchezia speciosa,

Check out  GardC the Nature Center 

Contact: Roberta Williams                            

268-463-4121, ext 201 Executive Director

www.gardc.org

Happy gardening!

Dry weather gardening:

Create  a water source nearby so  you can help to fix  the dryness.

You can use a plastic jug or tall juice carton with small holes placed all around the base. Just plant these jugs right next to where you expect to be planting a vegetable, flower or herb plant and fill them with water. When the rain is not enough to feed the plant, you can get water directly to the roots. This is the only way to go if you are trying to conserve water. If you do choose this option, once a week lightly mist the leaves of the plants either in the morning or at dusk.

Digging circular, small ditches around a row of plants is a good idea if your only water comes from a garden hose. Make sure the plants are elevated on a small hill and that their roots are covered. If the circles are connected between plants, you can just set the hose in front of the first plant and let the water flow to the other plants. Making sure that only the plants are being watered.

Try to create some shade, move potted plants to under your trees.

The garden is a metaphor for having a place to develop an ethical way to understand life 
and to make a life that is ethical.

—Dr. Alan Kapuler, founder, Peace Seeds

FLOWER ARRANGING CLASSES

Antigua & Barbuda Horticultural Society is pleased to present its 1^st series of Flower Arranging Classes:

Dates:  5 Classes scheduled to be held on Mondays – June 25^th, July 2^nd, July 9^th, July 16^th, July 23^rd

Place: Nurses Association Headquarters – Queen Elizabeth Highway

Cost: $120 for all 5 classes or $25 per class

Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Instructor: Edith Tomlinson

Requirements: Bring cutting tools, oasis, container, local flowers and foliage

Please call and register early with Jackie Williams at 464-8186

Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society/ Floral arranging–

P.O. W212, St. John’s Antigua Telephone E. Mail www.antiguahorticulture.com     info@antiguahorticultue.com

Floral Design Basic

Floral Design Enrollment Agreement

NAME________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS_____________________________________________________________

TELEPHONE__________________________________

E-MAIL ADDRESS:____________________________________________________________

Course:  BASIC FLORAL DESIGN 1^st series of Flower Arranging Classes::

5 Classes  Every Monday

Dates– June 25^th, July 2^nd, July 9^th, July 16^th, July 23^rd

COURSE INFORMATION:

Location Nurses Association Headquarters – Queen Elizabeth Highway

Cost: $120 for all 5 classes or $25 per class Payment is required at the time of enrollment and prior
to the start date of  the course.

Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Instructor: Edith Tomlinson

Requirements: Bring cutting tools, oasis, container, local flowers and foliage

Please call and register early with Jackie Williams at 464-8186 or fill  this form on line and email to info@antiguahorticulture.com

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March 31 2012 Flower and Garden show

What a show it was, thank you to all who made the day so beautiful!

Congratulations to all the winners

Antigua Barbuda Horticultural Society